confines
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Croatia must travel to Dallas, Toronto and Philadelphia for its group games, but it will recover between those matches in the preppy boarding-school confines of Episcopal High School in the D.C. suburbs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Drivers have complained in recent years that the cars were simply too big - too long and wide - to race effectively in the tight confines of the streets of Monaco.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
“It is absolutely as true as we could get it within the confines of a two-hour runtime,” Maras adds.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
It suggests that snacking beyond the confines of a mouse-sized tin is gluttonous, both nutritionally and spiritually.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
“You see how it is when you’ve left the confines of England?” he asks me.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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